'Secret' CIA document on White House Flickr feed

A photograph posted by the White House to the photo sharing website Flickr includes an image of a document with the letters CIA printed beneath what appears to be the word "secret."

The photograph by White House photographer Pete Souza is one of 301 pictures currently in the White House's Flickr pool, and depicts President Obama and six of his top advisors in the Red Room before Wednesday's prime time news conference. In the picture, foreign policy advisor Denis McDonough holds a binder, a legal pad, and some loose paper, with the top sheet bearing the acronym for the Central Intelligence Agency, which is clearly visible in an enlarged, 3500-pixel wide image available on Flickr.

The other words on the visible portion of the document aren't easily legible, and a White House spokesman, Bill Burton, dismissed it as innocuous in an email.

"Uh oh. Please don't tell me that the enemy is now going to know what our fax coversheets look like. (That is indeed what it is.)," he emailed.

[UPDATE: However, the White House removed the picture from the Internet immediately after being asked about it by a reporter.]

The ability of high-powered lenses to capture the text of documents led to the resignation earlier this month of a top English police official, who exposed secret documents to cameras; the portion of a secret document visible here is obviously nowhere near as clear in this photograph.

In the enlarged version of another image from the pool, the President can be seen to be reading POLITICO.